STAGE 1
Use the answers to the questions to fill in the blanks and you will have the coordinates to Stage 2.
All the clues are on the property in close proximity.
N 39 A A . D C B
W 078 E G . G F D
Start at Statue (plaque at base):
At what age did George Washington arrive in Winchester?
A
How many years did he work as a surveyor throughout the colonial Virginia frontier?
B
Read the sign on the side of George’s Washington’s Office Museum to answer this and the next question. What year did George use this building as an office?
C
How large (in miles) was Virginia’s frontier that Washington and the Virginia Militia were responsible to protect?
D E
How many cannons are on the museum’s property?
F
Read the engraving on the cannon on the Braddock Street side of the property. On what date in April did the army of General Braddock leave Alexandria to defend the western frontier against the French and Indians?
G
STAGE 2
Use the answers to the questions to fill in the blanks and you will have the coordinates to Stage 3.
All the clues are on the property in close proximity.
N 39 A H . C E B
W 078 H G . F D H
When did Stonewall Jackson begin living in this home?
A B C
There is another sign nearby. Use it to answer the following questions. When was this Gothic Revival-style cottage, Alta Vista, built?
D
The house’s owner, of what Virginia Infantry, offered it to the general for his headquarters?
E
Jackson describes the building as having how many rooms in the letter to his wife?
F
The image of the home on the sign portrays it circa what year?
G
How many years after Jackson used the home as his headquarters was the museum purchased for a museum?
H
STAGE 3
Use the answers to the questions to fill in the blanks and you will have the coordinates to the location of the cache. All the clues are in close proximity.
N 39 A E . G B B
W 078 F H . C I D
This home, the oldest dwelling in Winchester, survived being in the path of which Battle of Winchester?
A
How many members of the Hollingsworth family occupied the house during the war?
B
Mary Hollingsworth may have been a spy for the Confederates by impersonating a man. How many feet tall was Mary?
C
Mary Hollingsworth sheltered and fed Union soldiers. One of these soldiers, of which West
Virginia Cavalry, thanked Mary for her hospitality?
D
The two story wing on the home was added in what year?
E F
The image of Abram’s Delight on the sign portrays the home circa what year?
G H
On the right hand side of the home (if you are facing the front) you will see the building’s
cornerstone in the window under the eaves. What year is carved into the stone?
I
You now have the final coordinates. These coordinates will bring you to a building that contains information that is useful to visitors. From the final coordinates walk approximately 15 steps into this building. Once inside ask the staff, "Is the General at his desk today?" Sign the log book and your tour is complete. NOTE: The final stage and log book is available everyday 9am-5pm, excluding major holidays.
Thanks to wallmeister22601 for his assistance on this cache!